@Inquista said in Member State Applications:
@Anvre I accepted your application, but could you please update it with the name of your head of government, the name of your European Councillor, and the name of your governing party. Thanks!
Anvre's elections are on 5 January, and I don't wanna update the post after three-and-a-half weeks because that could make the country seem unstable.
[Retired; see next post for current entry]
Statehood matters
French name: Archiduché de Bajor-Lorraine [aʁ.ʃi.dy.ʃe də ba.ʒɔʁ lɔ.ʁɛn]
English name: Archduchy of Bajor-Lorraine
Demonym: Lorraine(s) (Lorrainian(s))
Capital city: Kaÿr [ka.iʁ]
Time zone (offset): Bajor-Lorraine Time (UTC)/Bajor-Lorraine Summer Time (UTC+1)
Motto: Vive le Archiduc (Long live the Archduke)
Currency: Guyare(s) ([gjaʁ]) (Ꞡ) (exchange rate: €1 = Ꞡ20)
Founding: 955 (basic roots/Bajor); 1201 (Lorraine); 1481 (Union des couronnes (Union of the Crowns))
Founding document: Constitution de Bajor-Lorraine (Constitution of Bajor-Lorraine)
National festivals/holidays: 25 March (Jour Fondation (Foundation Day))
Royal matters
Royal titles and styles
Regent: Altesse Souveraine {Name}, Archiduc de Bajor-Lorraine, Grand-Prince de Lorraine, Duc de Bajor (Sovereign Highness {Name}, Archduke of Bajor-Lorraine, Grand Prince of Lorraine, Duke of Bajor)
Consort(s): Altesse Souveraine {Name}, le Dauphin Royal [dofɛ̃ ʁwa.jal] (first concurrent marriage), Altesse Souveraine {Name}, la Vidame [vidam] (second concurrent marriage)
Past royal houses
Current information
Royal house: Maison de Robespierre [ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ] (House of Robespierre)
Ascension: 1481
Thee most recent rulers
Monarch: Altesse Souveraine Jacques III (b. 1980)
Consort: AS Avril, le Dauphin (b. 1982)
Archducal election eligibility criteria
Prior line of succession's current generation
Geographic and demographic matters
Region: European Union
Population: 62,510,000
Urbanisation: 68%
Nationality: Lorraine
Governmental matters
Election cycle and terms: Every five years unlimited terms
The parties
Coalition Unioniste (CU) (Unionist Coalition): Deeply Eurosceptic
Front Republicain National (FRN) (National Republican Front): Anti-royalist and want to force the sitting monarch to abdicate in favour of a democratically-elected president.
Jèntarim [ʒɛ̃.ta.ʁɛ̃]: Deeply royalist and want to abolish parliament
Ligue Communiste (LC) (Communist League): Gagnonist (Dengist without modernization and opening up)
Mouvement pour l’indépendance Nationale (MIN) (National Independence Movement): Anti-EU
Parti Vert (PV) (Greens): Environmentalists
Travailliste (Labour): Eurosceptic, trade unionist
Parliament
Maison des Domaines (House of Estates): 750-seat legislature that's headed by a Président (Speaker). (For translation reasons, legislative actions are known as Projets de loi du Sénat, or Senate Bills.)
Current government
AS Government: Coalition Unioniste (note: Travailliste has the second most seats but is allied with CU.)
AS Loyal Opposition: Jèntarim-Mouvement pour l’indépendance Nationale
Prime Minister: Renée Messier
Président des Domaines (Speaker of the Estates): Ts. Hon. Monsieur (M.) le Président Rafa'el Bonaparte
Union des Saints: 41.42%
Ligue Socialiste du Travail: 33.32%
Front Republicain National: 25.26%
Ligue Socialiste du Travail: 31.35%
Union des Saints: 28.18%
Front Republicain National: 20.00%
Parti Vert: 14.55%
Toularon: 3.12%
Coalition Royaliste: 2.80%
Polls to open
Avignon (2 Aug 12:46 CST; Coularon) Louis-Xavier-Etienne Hébert, who is both Président of the Governorate of the Church of Curosant and Acting Président of Curosant, has called for the first round polling in the General Election to occur at the times specified below on 3 August.
Head of State (representative): 00:00-23:59 (for maximum participation)
Internal: 07:00-18:59
(Please note that I backdated the news story by several hours because releasing such momentous news in the wee hours of the morning (00:11, in this case) would look horrible.)
Former theocracy transitioning to more secular government
Avignon (21 July 17:35 CST; Coularon) The Most Serene State of Curosant will be holding its first ever open General Election over a minimum of two rounds on 3 August 2024 and 17 August 2024, with round one’s top three vote-getters advancing to round two and a third round to be held on 31 August 2024 in the event of round two’s results being within a 3% margin of error. Additionally, unless a party’s leader is otherwise specified, its leader and candidate are the same person. While the Head of State from another nation may cast a representative ballot for that nation in each round, those votes will have minimal impact on the final vote percentages. Finally, the Mouvement pour l’indépendance Nationale, or National Independence Movement, elected not to participate in the General Election due to lack of nationwide support for its core tenant of leaving the European Union.
Coalition Royaliste (CR) (Royalist Coalition) (Reds)
Views: Deeply pro-EU royalists who want to permanently separate the Church of Curosant from the State and transition Curosant from the nuiem [nɥɛ̃] to the euro
Candidate: Jeanne-Marie Valcher
Resulting government: Principality with Grand Prince as monarch
Proposed name: Principauté Très Sérénissime de Curosant [pʁɛ̃.si.po.te tʁɛ se.ʁe.ni.sim də ky.ʁɔ.sɑ̃] (Most Serene Principality of Curosant)
Front Republicain National (FRN) (National Republican Front) (Yellows)
Views: Anti-royalist wanting to turn Curosant into a semi-presidential republic and permanently separate the Church of Curosant from the State
Candidate: Charlène-Xavier Robespierre
Resulting government: Semi-presidential republic with President as Executive
Proposed name: République Très Sérénissime de Curosant [ʁe.py.blik] (Most Serene Republic of Curosant)
Ligue Socialiste du Travail (LST) (Socialist Labour League) (Violets)
Views: TML Thought (pro-EU market socialism with euro as Curosant's currency)
Candidate: Thierry-Maxime Leroux
Resulting government: One-party communist state with General Secretary as Executive
Proposed name: République des Travailleurs Très Sérénissime de Curosant [də tʁa.va.jœʁ] (Most Serene Workers’ Republic of Curosant)
Parti Vert (PV) (Greens)
Views: Environmentalist
Candidate: Avril-Antoinette Javert
Resulting government: Principality with Grand Prince as monarch
Proposed name: Principauté Très Sérénissime de Curosant
Toularon [tu.la.ʁɔ̃] (Oranges)
Views: Church of Curosant-unaffiliated conservatives who want to turn Curosant into a hereditary absolute monarchy and keep the nuiem as Curosant's currency
Candidate: Ariel-Robert-Charles Benoît
Resulting government: Kingdom with King as monarch
Proposed name: Royaume Très Serein de Curosant [ʁwa.jɔm ... sə.ʁɛ̃] (Most Serene Kingdom of Curosant)
Union des Saints (US) (Saints’ Union) (Whites)
Views: Conservatives who want to keep the Church of Curosant entwined with the State to some extent
Leader: Primat Urbain V
Candidate: Druid Jacques-Michel Pétain, Évêque de Québec
Resulting government: Semi-presidential republic with President as Executive
Proposed name: Très Sainte République de Curosant [sɛ̃t] (Most Holy Republic of Curosant)
Note: If the Union des Saints wins, the current Governorate of the Most Serene State will officially separate from the Church of Curosant while a provision guaranteeing Union des Saints 20% of the vote will be enshrined in Curosant's constitution.
Statehood matters
French name: Archiduché de Bajor-Lorraine [aʁ.ʃi.dy.ʃe də ba.ʒɔʁ lɔ.ʁɛn]
English name: Archduchy of Bajor-Lorraine
Demonym: Lorraine(s) (Lorrainian(s))
Capital city: Kaÿr [ka.iʁ]
Time zone (offset): Bajor-Lorraine Time (UTC)/Bajor-Lorraine Summer Time (UTC+1)
Motto: Vive le Archiduc (Long live the Archduke)
Currency: Guyare(s) ([gjaʁ]) (Ꞡ) (exchange rate: €1 = Ꞡ20)
Founding: 955 (basic roots/Bajor); 1201 (Lorraine); 1481 (Union des couronnes (Union of the Crowns))
Founding document: Constitution de Bajor-Lorraine (Constitution of Bajor-Lorraine)
National festivals/holidays: 25 March (Jour Fondation (Foundation Day))
Royal matters
Royal titles and styles
Regent: Altesse Souveraine {Name}, Archiduc de Bajor-Lorraine, Grand-Prince de Lorraine, Duc de Bajor (Sovereign Highness {Name}, Archduke of Bajor-Lorraine, Grand Prince of Lorraine, Duke of Bajor)
Consort(s): Altesse Souveraine {Name}, le Dauphin Royal [dofɛ̃ ʁwa.jal] (first concurrent marriage), Altesse Souveraine {Name}, la Vidame [vidam] (second concurrent marriage)
Past royal houses
Current information
Royal house: Maison de Robespierre [ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ] (House of Robespierre)
Ascension: 1481
Thee most recent rulers
Monarch: Altesse Souveraine Jacques III (b. 1980)
Consort: AS Avril, le Dauphin (b. 1982)
Archducal election eligibility criteria
Prior line of succession's current generation
Geographic and demographic matters
Region: European Union
Population: 62,510,000
Urbanisation: 68%
Nationality: Lorraine
Governmental matters
Election cycle and terms: Every five years unlimited terms
The parties
Coalition Unioniste (CU) (Unionist Coalition): Deeply Eurosceptic
Front Republicain National (FRN) (National Republican Front): Anti-royalist and want to force the sitting monarch to abdicate in favour of a democratically-elected president.
Jèntarim [ʒɛ̃.ta.ʁɛ̃]: Deeply royalist and want to abolish parliament
Ligue Communiste (LC) (Communist League): Gagnonist (Dengist without modernization and opening up)
Mouvement pour l’indépendance Nationale (MIN) (National Independence Movement): Anti-EU
Parti Vert (PV) (Greens): Environmentalists
Travailliste (Labour): Eurosceptic, trade unionist
Parliament
Maison des Domaines (House of Estates): 750-seat legislature that's headed by a Président (Speaker). (For translation reasons, legislative actions are known as Projets de loi du Sénat, or Senate Bills.)
Current government
AS Government: Coalition Unioniste (note: Travailliste has the second most seats but is allied with CU.)
AS Loyal Opposition: Jèntarim-Mouvement pour l’indépendance Nationale
Prime Minister: Renée Messier
Président des Domaines (Speaker of the Estates): Ts. Hon. Monsieur (M.) le Président Rafa'el Bonaparte
@Bajor-Lorraine said in Member State Applications:
Native RP Name: Archiduché de Bajor-Lorraine [aʁ.ʃi.dy.ʃe də ba.ʒɔʁ lɔ.ʁɛn]
Nation Name in RP: Archduchy of Bajor-Lorraine
Nation Name on NationStates: Bajor-Lorraine
Puppet: N/AMap plot requested: 33
Capital city: Kaÿr [ka.iʁ]
Currency: Guyare(s) ([gjaʁ]) (Ꞡ); factional unit (1/100): uen ([ɥɛ̃]) (u) (exchange rate: €1 = Ꞡ5)
National languages: FrenchHead of State: Archiduc Gabrielle I
Head of Government: Premier Ministre Hon. Jean Renoir
Governing party: Coalition UnionisteEuropean Councillor: Hon. Henri Ocon
Current participation in other regions (if any): N/A
Past participation in other regions (if any): N/AMy country accepts the Constitution and the Acquis Communautaire (Y/N): Y
Renewing this claim
On 15 January 2021, each of Dallara Aviation SaRL and 2 affiliated debtors (“the debtors”), as represented by Jean-Michel Dandenault from Groupe Dandenault Metzger SaRL (“the liquidator”), filed a voluntary petition (the “voluntary petitions”) under section 5 of Bajor-Lorraine’s Bankruptcy and Receivership Act of 1643, as amended (“The Act”) in Regent’s Commercial Court—Molyneaux ("the bankruptcy court"). The petitions were accompanied by a Section 5 Liquidation Plan (the “liquidation plan”). The 3 cases are pending before Monsieur le président Olivier Trezeguet ("the judge"), who assigned them the case numbers below and is jointly administering them under the case number 21-0038 (“the joint case”).
The judge entered an order establishing an official creditors’ committee (the “Committee”) and scheduled a meeting of creditors for 20 January 2021 (the “first creditors’ meeting”) before adjourning the hearing.
At the first creditors meeting, the committee and liquidator agreed to solicit bids for the debtors as a combined entity (“DalAv”), just Dallara Air Taxi (“Air Taxi”), and just HeliFLY (“ChopperCo”) starting the following day in a one-month-long acution. The Judge approved the procedure.
On 01 February 2021, the following bids were submitted: a Ꞡ1,850,000 bid for DalAv’s assets by Samoa Partners SaRL (“Samoa” and the “SP bid”) and a Ꞡ801,250 bid for ChopperCo’s assets by Warbird Aviation SaRL through HeliMerge EURL (“Warbird” and the “HM bid” together the SP bid, the “initial bids”).
After Orion Flying Services SaRL (“Orion”) submitted a Ꞡ1,230,000 bid for Air Taxi’s assets (the “OFS bid”) on 3 February 2021, the judge scheduled a committee meeting on the following day (the “second creditors’ meeting”).
At the second creditors’ meeting, the Committee stated its preference of the HM and OFS bids (the “first preference declaration” and “HM/OFS combo”).
On 08 February, Orion and Samoa notified the judge that they set up a joint venture named Alnitak SaRL (“Alnitak”) and began discussing the possibility of a joint bid for Air Taxi’s assets on 06 February.
On 12 February, Alnitak submitted a Ꞡ2,000,000 bid for Air Taix’s assets (the “Alnitak bid”) to the judge, who scheduled another Committee meeting for 15 February (the “the third creditors’ meeting”).
At the third creditor’s meeting, the Committee accepted Samoa’s entry into Air Taxi’s sale process through Alnitak.
On 19 February, the judge closed bidding and scheduled a hearing for 22 February (the “sale hearing”).
At the sale hearing, the judge closed Air Taxi’s case by approving its sale to Alnitak (the “Air Taxi closure”), closed ChopperCo’s case by approving its sale to Warbird (the “ChopperCo closure” and together with the Air Taxi closure, the “closures”), and approved DalAv’s name change to DalAv Liquidations SaRL (the “name change”).
Debtor
DalAv Liquidations SaRL 21-0038
Closed cases
Dallara Air Taxi EURL 21-0039
HeliFLY EURL 21-0040
Important dates
15 January 2021: Petition date
20 January 2021: First Creditors’ Meeting
04 February 2021: Second Creditors’ Meeting
15 February 2021: Third Creditors’ Meeting
19 February 2021: Bidding deadline
22 February 2021: Sale hearing, closures, and name change
Key documents
1-3. Voluntary petitions
4. Schedule of assets and liabilities
5. Liquidation plan
6. Committee Establishment Order
7. Auction circular
8-9. Initial bids
10. OFS bid
11. First Preference Declaration
12. Alnitak bid
13. Air Taxi closure
14. ChopperCo closure
15. Name change authorization
La cour de commerce du Régent (CCR), or Regent's Commercial Court, is Bajor-Lorraine's bankruptcy court system. It's structured such that that there's one CCR in each province. All proceedings herein are handled under La loi sur les faillites de 1643, as amended, or the Bankruptcy Act of 1643, as amended. The case numbers herein are formatted YY-CCCC, with "YY" being the two-digit year and "CCCC" being the four-digit case number with any leading zeroes:
# In re: [Entity], et al. Case No. YY-CCCC (JJ), Jointly Administered
On [Date1], [Entity] (“the lead debtor”) and its creditors submitted a [document] (the “ABBR”) in accordance with Bajor-Lorraine’s Bankruptcy Act of 1643, as amended (“The Act”) to [Judge] ("the judge") in Regent’s Commercial Court—[Location] ("the bankruptcy court"). The ABBR placed the lead debtor and all of its affiliated debtors (together with the lead debtor, “the debtors”) into [type] proceedings under Section (num1) of The Act. The (num) cases were assigned the case numbers below by the judge, who’s jointly administering them under the case number YY-CCCC ("the joint case").
The judge appointed [Entity1] [position] and scheduled a [hearing] for [Date2] (“the [hearing]”) before adjourning the hearing.
**Debtors**
Blah
**Important dates**
[Date1]: Petition date
[Date2]: [hearing]
**Key documents**
1. ABBR
2-(num2). [Type] petitions
(num3). [document1(s)]
(num4). Retention of [Entity1] as (position)
(Reserved for future use due to ongoing restructuring of prospectus template)
(Reserved for future use due to ongoing restructuring of prospectus template)